Loker

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from Loker in West Flanders

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɫoʊkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Loker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 531K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 101K
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 194K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

626 people, 2010

Sources
183 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name from Loker in West Flanders.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Loker counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Loker is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6261 in 531K702Loker183
AR Argentina4491 in 101K449——
GB United Kingdom≈190 est.≈1 in 349K—Loker61
DZ Algeria≈140 est.≈1 in 309K—Loker2
CA Canada≈100 est.≈1 in 369K—Loker38
SG Singapore≈32 est.≈1 in 194K—Loker1

626 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Loker is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lóker, Löker

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Löker

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Löker

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Löker

  • Norwegian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Löker, Lõkëŕ

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States

    Also written Löker

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Loker is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, present of loke

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Loker,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Loker
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020702#34,703
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010626#35,866
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000610#35,003
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—449—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Loker mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from Loker in West Flanders. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Loker?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɫoʊkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Loker have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 626 people named Loker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loker.
Where is Loker most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Loker is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Loker?
In the United States, the national register counted 626 people named Loker in 2010, about 1 in 531 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Loker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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